Issue number 16
December 1986

Contents Page EDITORIAL 5 REPRINT The Early African Press in Natal 6 NATAL SOCIETY LECTURE 'Putting the Playhouse Together Again' Gordon Small 12 ARTICLE The Indigenous Forests of Colonial Natal and Zululand Donal P. McCracken 19 ARTICLE Dick King: A Modest Hero Jacqueline A. Kalley 39 ARTICLE The Natal Provincial Council 1910-1986 A. Bozas 45 ARTICLE The Oldest Houses in Pietermaritzburg Reconsidered J. Andre Labuschagne 51 OBITUARIES   George Tatham 79 Oliver Davies 80 NOTES AND QUERIES Moray Comrie 85 BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTICES 103 SELECT LIST OF RECENT NATAL PUBLICATIONS 114 REGISTER OF RESEARCH ON NATAL 115